gently

It’s been a while since I’ve written here. There’s no great reason why, except that when you stop it is so much harder, the longer the break, to start posting again.

I’ve been thinking about how I blog and why. Belonging to a particular community, by default, drained every scrap of blogging love from me.

So a complete break, cut off from the old Carrots and Kids, means I can totally start again. Probably with no readers but that’s ok. It feels freer somehow.

Beginning to blog again here feels like starting afresh. I don’t care for competitions, being in a room full of other bloggers telling me about their 90,000 readers, wonderful newsletters or generally how great they are, nor do I care for what I do here to be measured or compared to others.

I like gentle writers and blogs. I like people documenting their days just because. I like great photographs. I like peeking into the world they want to show me.

And that’s how I shall blog. How I used to. If I talk about a product here it’s because I bought it and really like it. I’m not interested in receiving goods for free to write a review (much less read them. Yawn). This blog is totally uncommercialised. That feels refreshing.

I’m not here to receive validation from anyone through my writing or pictures and I find it draining (and very easy to spot) when others do. Yeah, I know, each to their own. Blah. Blah. Blah. I just don’t want to read it.

But I do want to share what I love to read. On a screen and in that endearingly old fashioned way, on paper.

There will still be gardening too. Rather weirdly, I have done loads. It’s as if knowing that it was just for me, with no interest for anyone else, freed me up to do it just like I used to.

I’ll still write about it here. But I’m also going to include stuff that interests me. I did start another blog but life’s too short to maintain two, so it’ll all be on here.

The breadmaking, green cleaning, the slow (oh, so slow) knitting, wholefood cooking, routines and rhythms, simpler living. It will all be here.

And so shall I.